Belief Quote by Max De Pree

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

— Winston Churchill

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are…

— Bill Watterson

History is rooted in the future

— Terence McKenna

History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

— Robin Hobb

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs…

— Carl Sagan

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

— John McCain

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

— Roger Rees

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

— Arundhati Roy

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham